Piet Hein Quotes

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.

Living is a thing you do now or never - which do you?

People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.

The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

If no thought your mind does visit, Make your speech not too explicit.

The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be missed/ if it didn't exist.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err again but less and less and less.

To make a name for learning/ when other roads are barred,/ take something very easy/ and make it very hard.

Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and now he has eternity.